Magi
Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic

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The only thing I can say is:

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If you don't know what that means, then you won't. If you do, then you do.

To anyone looking to read something to pass the time, to feel like you're on an adventure of a lifetime, I think you came to the right place. I came in not expecting much, and what I got in return was very fucking worthwhile. I mean, my ass is here commenting and telling you to read this. That might not mean anything to you, but it speaks volumes to me.

Or someone rewrote my rukh to tell you this (Get it??) (I thought ... it was pretty funny)

And thank you Oz for recommending this!!

Magi. Oh boi were do I start. Its starts off pretty childish, builds strong characters and keeps going for around 250 amazing chapters and horribly crashes and burns to the End. Id honestly recomend against reading the manga. Spoil yourself in the character Bio's and be done with it. There are some interesting things that happen with the setting later but the story also becomes literaly one asspull per chapter, it turns into the most generic muh friendship garbage, and honstely, I woudnt have read the last 30 chapters if it not for completion. The Anime covered the best parts of magi, and just ... stick with that
Story:____6 (per ~250 9 the closer it come to the end 1)
Art:______7 (characters are suprisingly hard to keep apart in monochrom due to the high saturation)
Character:_8 (would be 9, but the last third screws with it, like with everthing)
Enjoyment:3(dont force yourself to finish it, just drop it once you dont like it anymore)
Overall :__ 5 (had it at 6 OG, but it realy did leave a lingering bitter taste.)
--IF you insist on reading as much of the manga as is enjoyable till right were it goes downhill HARD read till
chapter 318

It honestly felt like the author was writing one manga, and then at some point midway through, had an idea for a completely different manga and just stuffed her ideas into the world she had already established (debatably even like four different series). (It's also possible she had some conflicting ideas with her editors so who knows). It ended up having a case of constant whiplash for me until the very end of the series.

While I'd like to blame the lackluster finale on the lack of a defined endpoint, there's plenty of examples of manga with no defined endpoint that had good endings (usually more-so ... seinen or SoL) and manga with clear endpoints with pretty bad endings, it basically all comes down to the writer's skill.

But outside of the finale and tonal whiplash, the focus on Djinn Equips led to a lot of power-up designs that left the characters looking nothing like themselves, and sometimes made fights really hard to follow as a result and everything just becoming a mess.

Though for the positives, the main cast was likeable and their interactions really kept the manga going, especially early on. The final arc, while jarring at first, set the story into an interesting direction. And the initial final villain was way better than how it was described to me by someone else.

Overall, I started this manga really impressed and surprised I hadn't considered reading it before, but by the end I was just hoping it would get better or at least all be worth it in the end, but I just never got that.

40/100